The Hidden Burden of State Tax Debt Collections

Professor Sakinah Tillman of the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law discusses how the complexities of state tax debt collections disadvantage low-income taxpayers.

For more, read Tillman's article, "Impact of Vague State Tax Collection Alternatives on Low-Income Taxpayers."

Listen to more Tax Notes Talk episodes from our critical tax theory series:

• Addressing Tax Policy Challenges for Workers With Disabilities
• The Inadvertent Price of a Gender-Neutral Tax Code
• Race-Based Poll Taxes and 20th-Century Discrimination
• Examining Treasury’s Review of Racial Bias in the U.S. Tax Code
• State Tax Authority and Native Americans: Complex and Convoluted
• Wealth, Inequality, and Taxes in the U.S.
• Taxes and the LGBTQ Community

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Credits
Host: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jeanne Rauch-Zender, Paige Jones
Producer: Jordan Parrish
Audio Editor: Laura Kondourajian

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